Lets not forget that she testified yesterday: American law does not permit the use of foreign law or international law to interpret the Constitution. That’s a given. And my speech explained that, as you noted, explicitly. There is no debate on that question; there’s no issue about that question.

but said in a speech, referenced here:
In both those cases, Judge Sotomayor said, the court was using the foreign or international law to “help us understand what the concepts meant to other countries and . . . whether our understanding of our own constitutional rights fell into the mainstream of human thinking.”

Sotomayor seems to be lying to get on the bench and that’s what happens when the Republicans blow their own philosophy and hence, blow elections. Just as Roberts and Alito are what happens (good) when the Republicans stick to their philosophy and win elections.

Here’s a question: If the country is center-left, as many of the trolls claim, then why does someone like Sotomayor find it necessary to deny her previous record and pretend to be as judicially conservative as Roberts and Scalia even with a filibuster-proof Democrat majority?

In fairness to Judge Sotomayor, the core holding of Roe has withstood multiple challenges. So it probably is fair to say that Roe is settled law. (There certainly isn’t a majority on the Court today, nor is there likely to be one soon, for overturning Roe).

And we right-of-center types are usually the ones who venerate precedent. (We do it as a mechanism of judicial restraint.) So even if, as I suspect, Judge Sotomayor is only paying lip service to a conservative understanding of the law, it says something that she feels the need to pay that lip service, no?

Judge Sotomayor, in her testimony yesterday, asserted that “Few judges could claim they love baseball more than I do” and that she “grew up … watching baseball.” But a March 28, 1995, story in USA Today, titled “U.S. District judge not a baseball fan,” stated that Sotomayor “grew up a few miles from Yankee Stadium but says she knows little about the sport.” And yesterday she said that “many residents of Washington, D.C. have asked me to look at the Senators” as her new team. But as even a casual baseball fan would know, the D.C. team is the Nationals, not the Senators.